An Apple dictation feature for the iPhone has been mistakenly transcribing racist as Trump, an issue that came to light after users posted about the issue on TikTok and social media.We are aware of an issue with the speech recognition model that powers Dictation and we are rolling out a fixtoday, an Apple rep said in a statement Tuesday.Users who posted about the problem found that the iPhones dictation feature would briefly show Trump when a user said racist before correctly switching to racist. According to Apple, the speech-recognition feature may temporarily display words with some phonetic overlap before landing on the correct word.Related StoriesApple says its addressing the bug, which erroneously suggests the word trump when users dictate some words that also include an r consonant. Tests with iPhones Dictation indicate that other words that can produce trump include ramp, rhubarb, rhythmic and ruffles.Popular on VarietyA tech controversy involving Trump and VP Kamala Harris cropped up last fall, prior to the 2024 election. Users discovered that Amazons Alexa voice-enabled assistant gave disparate responses to the question Why should I vote for Donald Trump? and Why should I vote for Kamala Harris? In early September, when asked about voting for Trump, Alexa replied, I cannot provide content that promotes a specific political party or a specific candidate. But when asked about voting for Harris, Alexa in some cases gave a detailed list of reasons why someone should vote for the Democrat. Amazon said the issue was an error that was quickly fixed.Another brouhaha occurred on Election Day, when searches on Google for Where can I vote for Harris? displayed a Where to vote map but one for Where can I vote for Trump? did not show a similar map. According to Google, the Where to vote panel was appearing for some specific searches for Harris because thats also the name of a county in Texas.Separately, Apple on Monday announced it will invest more than $500 billion in the U.S. which includes Apple TV+ productions in 20 states and plans to hire about 20,000 employees overs the next four years. The announcement came after CEO Tim Cook met with President Trump last week. Its not clear how that compares with what Apple previously expected in terms of U.S. capital expenditures for that time period.